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"Waterloo." Mommy sighed, and stepped carenilly
around the batdefield. "All right. I won't bump anything."

She sat down on the side of Bamey's bed He smiled at
her.

"G'night, punkin. Have sweet dreams."

He hugged her. She smelled nice, he thought. "Seymour
got a new fire truck," he told her. Seymour had played with
his new truck all day at preschoolтАФand hadn't shared. It was
big and red, and it would have sprayed real water if Mi's.
Alien had let Seymour fill the tank. But she hadn't. Never-
theless. Bamey was in love. "Can I have one, too?"

"You always want what everybody else hasтАФdoesn't lie,
Mom?" Jamie opened his big mouth. Bamey wanted to
punch him.

"That's enough, Jamie." Mommy gave his stupid brother
a hard look, and he shut up. She looked down at Bamey, and
shook her head, and brushed his hair off his forehead with
her hand "We'll talk about the truck later, Bamey. Right
now, it's time to go to sleep."

"Okay. Will we get to play in die snow tomorrow?"

She nodded "If there's enough, and it isn't too wet, I'll let
you go play in it."

MINERVA WAKES

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Bamey snuggled under the covers, and Mommy banded
him Brown Bear. He whispered, "Don't forget to tell the
monsters to go away."

She sighed. Mommy always sighed. "What have I told
you about the monsters?"

He frowned at her. "You said there aren't any monsters."
Bamey added, "But, Mommy, there are. Under the bed.
Really."

She looked under his bed. "Nope. No monsters." She
tossed him on the forehead, and said, "You only dream them.
Just rememberтАФyou can make a magic sword in your
dreams and chase the monsters with that." She smiled at
him. "And once you chase them away, you won't ever be